Thread: Trailer Hubs?

You cannot.
have a look in trailers and you will see that if you want to use RR/Disco mag nuts you have to buy blank hubs and fit Rover studs, as ALKO do not supply metric studs.

Steel wheels OK as you can get the nuts from ALKO to suit the SAE studs.
Regards Philip A

Goodonya Phillip, you've saved me a whole lotta time and effort. Thanks

My Kamper has Defender (Disco1) hubs and metric nuts. So, yes, you can get them. Unfortunately I don't know where from as I specified Defender hubs when I bought the Kamper.

How about getting some Disco stub axles and hubs. Bolt the stub axles to a trailer axle and use the LR hubs and bearings. Probably a lot stronger setup than any aftermarket hub / bearing setups.

The only bit to be careful of is making sure the end plate on the axle where the stubs would bolt on is strong enough.

It all depends on how much effort you want to go for.

As Phillip said you can go AlKo hubs particularly if you want electric brakes. AlKo have Land Rover as an optional PCD and luckily Disco 1 is standard Land Rover Series/90-110/Defender/RRc PCD. The problem is that you need to use steel Disco 1 wheels if you use the standard AlKo studs. Otherwise you can get undrilled, and drill them for M16 and purchase OEM replacement studs from RRc or Defender models. (You can also buy the standard LR PCD AlKo hubs and oversize them.) The studs are available from LR Series in the UK RUF000020 WHEEL STUD | shop | www.lrseries.com | L. R. Series or you may be able to get them in Oz.

Your other option is to have an axle blank machined to match a Defender/RRc/Disco 1 bearings to use standard RRc/Disco hubs and then fit a disk brake system using a trailer cable operated caliper.

If you go the AlKo route, remember there are axle 3 standards: Holden bearings = 1000Kg per axle; Ford slimline = 1450Kg per axle; Land Cruiser parrallel = 2000Kg+ per axle.

Diana

My 1997 ALKO parallels are 2x Ford inner bearings ALKO no 68149.
I got my studs from Graeme Cooper.
They had to be countersunk by quite a bit to have the emerged length the same as they are on a car wheel so that the nut can be fully tightened.
DM digital . I note you have steel wheels on the camper. Have you tried a mag wheel nut on the Kamper , as a 9/16 SAE is the same size as a 16MM but with a different pitch.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

My 1997 ALKO parallels are 2x Ford inner bearings ALKO no 68149.
<snip> Have you tried a mag wheel nut on the Kamper , as a 9/16 SAE is the same size as a 16MM but with a different pitch.
Regards Philip A

You may be correct about the parallel being 2 X Ford inner bearings for the 2000Kg axle but would assume L/C for the over 2000Kg axle. The Ford slimline are the tapered stub axles and are definitely only rated at 1450Kg.

Re: Metric nuts on UNF/UNC studs. I would be very careful about running with that setup, I have seen a number of LR wheels take sojourns off into the scrub with mated M16 nut and studs. I can not see it being even that safe with mix-matched nuts and studs.

Re: Metric nuts on UNF/UNC studs. I would be very careful about running with that setup, I have seen a number of LR wheels take sojourns off into the scrub with mated M16 nut and studs. I can not see it being even that safe with mix-matched nuts and studs.

I agree totally as you would have to butcher them on. The question I was asking was " Seeing you have steel wheels are the studs/nuts really metric or were you just told that, and have you tried the metric mag nuts to see?"
They look exactly the same and ALKO do not tell you they are not metric. It's only when you try the nuts that you find out as you (I) assume that they are compatable.
I am trying to avoid some other poor person going through the hassle I went through.
Regards Philip A